..The simple method we develop has potential to provide substantial insight into the relative contributions of population and individual-level processes to the dynamics of populations in stochastic environments...

Estimating individual contributions to population growth: evolutionary fitness in ecological time

..Our results help explain how a shift in phenology can cause simultaneous phenotypic and demographic changes, and highlight the need for a theory integrating ecological and evolutionary dynamics in stochastic environments...

The population growth consequences of variation in individual heterozygosity

Martina M I Di FonzoDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, United KingdomPLoS ONE 6:e19667. 2011

..We demonstrate that although heterozygosity is associated with some components of fitness, most notably adult male reproductive success, in general it is only weakly associated with population growth...

Effects of sampling regime on the mean and variance of home range size estimates

..Analyses using dominance or age at primiparity to define maternal quality showed no significant interactions with population density, highlighting the difficulties of defining a consistent measure of individual quality...

..These findings suggest that there may be predictable differences in the age-related shape of the cost of reproduction between species, but further research is required to identify the mechanisms generating such differences...

..Understanding this relationship and its consequences for population persistence and evolutionary change demands closer examination of the lives, and deaths, of the individuals within populations within species...

Re-evaluating the effect of harvesting regimes on Nile crocodiles using an integral projection model

..6. Our findings highlight the need to consider demographic processes and density dependence in subpopulations before drawing conclusions about how behaviour affects population processes in socially complex systems...

..We suggest that the appropriate choice of scale and definition requires a good understanding of the ecology and life history of the study species. Our findings contrast with several common assumptions about roe deer behavior...